Anand Socket-F vs. Woodcrest

yeah, i just read it about a hour ago, the wierd part is that i was more interested in the case that the systems where housed in then the systems or benchmarks.

the wind tunnel design on the xeons is pretty common. i wonder if its a requested design from intel?

ive purchased a lot HP ML's and DL's from G1's to G4's for both AMD and Xeon and the wind tunnel has been the design of every intel solution.

indeed, it seems to be squandering their power/performance ratio

still trying to figure out why intel is so insistent on shaking things up in the memory market. this is really one area they need to just backup and go with the flow.

Good review from Anand.

Rev-F Opterons do have true potential against intel's Woodcrest and Cloverton. I guess barcelona will widen the gap even more putting it as the clear leader in 2P-4P-8P servers and HPCs.

When would we see such a review from THG? :?

They didnt test 2220 vs. X5355 (~same power consumption for the chip itself)
While having done some not-so-bad tests in the last months, AnandTech is turning to AMDTech again...

Just wanted to contribute to your thread with this other benchmark:

Cloverton can't keep up with Opteron

LOL.
We're talking about 4 processors vs 4 processors, don't matter if it's dual-quad core or quad-dual cores.
Even if intel had Cloverton in a 4-way setup they would be doing injury to such a system thanks to the FSB bottlenecking.

Even a 2P Opteron performs better than Woodcrest in SPECfp and battles its way in the other benchmarks.

Anyhow, judging by your reasoning, Quad-FX is not in intel's kentsfield lands?

9nm! You're back!

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=2892

Woodcrest performs better near saturation point. Although who would run a server at saturation point anyway.

Opteron does better on power consumption. Surprisingly.

Good to finally see a test between the two that wasnt based on encoding/decoding dvd/mp3s or whatever other synthetic crap that has little relevance to real world applications.

Actually there are big companies that are using VMware....! in orther to extract all the juice from their servers....!!! instead of geting 20%-30% of load you can get around 80% + Load....! and the benefit from a more stable plataform in cases where you've got 1 server down you can actually manage them with your other servers and at the same time you are fixing the one who is down...!!!

Hurra Virtual Machines....!!!

Cheers

Sam